Chapter 98: As Long as You Persist

Li Yexing frowned as he stepped over the broken glass door.

The inside of the building was very dark, with low visibility and only a little light leaking through the broken windows. The walls were covered in large patches of mold, and the air was filled with the smell of decay.

Li Yexing and Kanan cautiously walked side by side into the lobby on the first floor, their footsteps crunching on the broken glass, which sounded particularly ominous in the darkness.

"Let's go left first," Li Yexing whispered, and the two of them entered the west corridor together.

They soon came across the first door, and she instinctively stood on the right side while he stood on the left. He slowly grabbed the doorknob and turned it, but with a clunking sound, he shook his head and said to her, "The lock seems to be rusty and won't open."

"Should we kick it open?" Kanan whispered.

"I don't think that's a good idea," Li Yexing frowned. "This place gives me a bad feeling, like something is sleeping inside. I don't want to make too much noise."

"Okay, I'll follow your lead," Kanan nodded.

The two of them searched the left corridor and found that almost all the doors were rusted shut, except for one that was already open.

They went in but didn't find any weapons they could use for self-defense. However, he found a can of first aid spray in a dusty drawer.

"This is good stuff," Li Yexing said happily, looking at the green can that was resembling a bottle of 'Wahaha'. "And it's not expired yet." {TN: Wahaha is a Chinese brand of bottled water and other beverages}

"What is it?" Kanan asked, a little puzzled.

"It's first aid spray, sold for five thousand dollars a can," Li Yexing said, shaking the small can in his hand. "This was Umbrella Corporation's flagship product, it can quickly stop bleeding and accelerate wound healing. It's a lifesaver."

"Five thousand dollars a can..." Kanan's face showed a hint of surprise. "That's too expensive."

"Yeah, who says it's not? That's why our mercenary agency has never considered using it." Li Yexing put the first aid spray in a small bag in his bulletproof vest used to hold a water bottle. "Let's go, there's nothing else to take here."

Next, the two of them left the west corridor and entered the east corridor.

"We don't need to search the restroom, right?" Passing by the restroom, Kanan grabbed him, who wanted to go into the women's restroom, and said with a strange expression, "I don't think anyone would hide important things in the restroom."

"Who knows?" Li Yexing turned his head and gave Kanan a strange smile, then went into the women's restroom, with her following behind in horror. Naturally, they didn't find anything in the women's restroom.

After searching the women's restroom, she saw him heading towards the men's restroom and impatiently said, "I'm not going in with you."

"It's okay, wait for me at the door," Li Yexing said to her, then plunged into the men's restroom.

Kanan stood at the door of the men's restroom with her hands in her pockets, leaning against the wall, waiting quietly. Soon, the sound of running water came from inside the restroom.

"Tsk..." Kanan felt a strange anger rising in her chest.

After a while, he came out of the men's restroom with a cigarette in his mouth and a smile on his face. She was about to mock him, but she saw his triumphant smile as he waved his hand, holding a gun in his hand.

Her expression gradually turned to shock.

"Haha, didn't expect it, did you? I found it in the water tank in the restroom, wrapped in a vacuum bag. I can't believe it still works..." Li Yexing showed off the gun in his hand to her, laughing and saying, "I never thought I would experience the kind of plot that only happens in old-school movies..."

Kanan put her hand on her forehead and looked helpless.

Next, the two proceeded to search the east corridor step by step.

Although all the doors on the east corridor were closed, they managed to open two rooms. They carefully searched the rooms and finally found a gun magazine hidden under the moldy mattress of a bed.

"I suspect that the person who hid the gun magazine under the mattress and the one who hid the gun in the toilet are the same person," Li Yexing whispered. "Why do you think they would do that?"

"How would I know?" Kanan shrugged.

"Well, at least we made some gains. Now we have a gun and two fully loaded magazines," Li Yexing whispered. "It would be even better if we could find a silencer. I really don't want to make any noise here."

"It's already good enough to get the gun," Kanan grumbled. "Look at me, I have nothing."

"Don't you have that thing?" Li Yexing made an exaggerated gesture and laughed softly. "The one that spits blood and turns into a blade?"

"Stop messing around. Let's go search the second floor," Kanan interrupted Li Yexing's performance and muttered to herself with a furrowed brow, "It's really strange. I remember when we first met, you weren't like this. You were a ruthless mercenary who didn't bat an eye at killing. How did you become so easygoing like a lunatic now?"

"Okay, Okay..." Li Yexing sighed and put away his smile, whispering, "I just wanted to lighten the mood. After all, this place feels too depressing to me..."

Looking at the dark corridor and the silent window outside, Li Yexing softly said, "This feels different from the feeling of being in a battle. During a battle, I know that my enemy will use guns to shoot me, grenades to blow me up, or even RPGs or something else. But here, I always feel like something is stuck in my throat. It's not a good feeling..."

She didn't reply to his statement. Indeed, the atmosphere here was terrible, like a horror movie. When the monster appeared, the feeling of terror would ease, but if the monster refused to show up...

A certain investigator who had been listening to the whispers of ancient gods for a long time once said that the oldest and strongest emotion of human beings is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown.

With the fear of the unknown, Li Yexing held the gun in his hand and, together with Kanan, climbed up to the second floor of the building.

The layout of the second floor was completely different from the first floor.

Compared to the first floor, the second floor appeared more crowded. Having experienced the first floor, Kanan decisively decided to start searching from the east corridor and rushed into the men's and women's restrooms.

As expected, she found nothing.

"It's okay, this is normal." Seeing her face looking a bit unpleasant, Li Yexing patted her shoulder and comforted her in a soft voice, "Moreover, the second-floor restroom is empty. Isn't there still the third floor? If there's nothing on the third floor, there are still two other buildings, right? As long as you persist, you will definitely find something in the restroom."

Kanan: "..."

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